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LDSD Flight Test Vehicle 2 in Cleanroom
LDSD Flight Test Vehicle 2 in Cleanroom

The main structural body of the second flight test vehicle in NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project is seen during…

A Balloon’s Job Well Done: LDSD in Flight
A Balloon’s Job Well Done: LDSD in Flight

The test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is seen here before and after the balloon that helped carry it…

Departing Saucer Snaps Balloon
Departing Saucer Snaps Balloon

Moments into its powered flight, the LDSD test vehicle captured this image of the balloon which carried it to high…

SPoRT Captures Image of Hurricane Iselle
SPoRT Captures Image of Hurricane Iselle

The image above shows an RGB color composite image of Hurricane Iselle on Aug. 5, 2014 from the Global Precipitation…

Prandtl-D Validating New Wing Design Method
Prandtl-D Validating New Wing Design Method

The streamers on the Prandtl-D No. 2 as it is launched illustrate how aerodynamic forces are maximized as birds overlap…

Fishing LDSD Out of the Water
Fishing LDSD Out of the Water

Divers retrieve the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator off the coast of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range…

Hurricanes Iselle and Julio Nearing the Hawaiian Islands
Hurricanes Iselle and Julio Nearing the Hawaiian Islands

In early August 2014, not one but two hurricanes were headed for the Hawaiian Islands. Storms arriving from the east…

Helios
Helios

The Helios Prototype was a remotely piloted flying wing aircraft developed under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST)…

NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring a Second Time
NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring a Second Time

NASA's NEOWISE mission detected comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring on July 28, 2014, less than three months before this comet's…

NASA’s Journey to Mars #NextGiantLeap
NASA’s Journey to Mars #NextGiantLeap

As we develop and test the new tools of 21st century spaceflight on the human Path to Mars, we once…